David Quin, “We are not trying to set them on fire, but trying to light a fire inside them”
Two-day lectures by David Quin, lecturer at Film, Art and Creative Technologies faculty of Dublin Institute of Art, Design and Technology conducted at SAFAA were a new experience for the Academy; It was the first time the Academy has been given such an opportunity to familiarise immediately with the Irish teaching experience in this field. It was also informative in terms of sharing applicable methods and approaches as well as a good opportunity for teachers and students to establish further bilateral collaboration…
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The results of Dilijan internship
Summer internship held in Dilijan offers a good start for work experience, especially for freshmen and is important in terms of education. This year they have held the internship period since mid-June, the results of which or the final exhibition opened on September 30, at Albert and Tove Boyajian exhibition-hall of State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia. The exhibited works that portrayed mainly impressions from Dilijan in the form of landscapes were highly praised…
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Inclusion final conference
ERASMUS + INCLUSION final conference was organized on September 25, 2019. Coordinated by State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia and hosted by American University of Armenia, the final conference represented the major achievements of the project highlighting the productive cooperation among countries…
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Final coordination meeting
On September 24, 2019 a coordination meeting was organized within ERASMUS PLUS INCLUSION project to highlight the activities to be implemented after the final conference…
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Portraits: Aram Isabekyan’s way of seeing
Portrait painting occupies a special place in Aram Isabekyan’s multi-genre art. He is certainly the best in this genre of painting today. Many share this opinion: his father, Eduard Isabekyan used to emphasize this and appreciate his son as a master in portrait-making…
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Japanese presence at “Albert and Tove Boyajian” gallery within Photo Fest
The first Armenian International Photo Fest launched in late August enlarged its dimension to “Albert and Tove Boyajian” gallery of State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia. The idea and realisation of Photo Fest belonged to photographer Tatev Mnatsakanyan, a former student of SAFAA, who won her first international prize at a competition in an Italian city Torino, while a student. Her numerous participations in International exhibitions, as well as her experience in solo expositions in a range of European countries, further led her to design and implementation of such an idea. The first Armenian International Photo Fest provided quite a wide geographical dimension including artists who arrived from Japan, Italy, Switzerland, India, Iran, Georgia and Belarus…
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SAFAA welcomes first-year students
SAFAA students-newcomers started the first day of their university life at the SAFAA hall meeting the university management, teaching staff and members of Student Council…
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Entrance exams are completed
Entrance examinations 2019 at State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia for 9 specialties are successfully completed…
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Artists’ Union of Armenia hosted the exhibition of SAFAA graduates
The exhibition-hall on the second floor of the Artists’ Union of Armenia gave an excellent opportunity to the current year graduates of State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia to organize the exhibition of their diploma works. It was only in terms of location that the hall couldn’t host the whole variety of works; the ones introduced were works of painting, graphics and ceramics that left a pleasant impression on visitors in terms of the level of performance…
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The First Stage of Armenian-Swiss Joint Project
Recently “Albert and Tove Boyajian” exhibition-hall of State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia hosted a group of students from the Basel School of Design and the head of the group Mischa Leiner. Jointly with the students of computer graphics department of our Academy they actualized the first stage of poster design project on the theme “Armenia-Switzerland”…
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